Ebooks: the format of the academic future | Higher Education Network. We have a profoundly different higher education system to the one that took shape in the 19th and 20th centuries. Technology is influencing higher education as never before. As Google chief Eric Schmidt has said, the internet isn't making inevitable change faster; it has become the engine of change. I do not believe in technological determinism. Nothing is inevitable, and we have the power to shape the way we use technologies. But, a technological revolution is taking place and it will go ahead with or without us.
As one who has frequently called on universities to embrace and adapt to technological change, I leapt at the opportunity to write an ebook. The book, 10,000 books 10,000 miles: The journey towards wisdom, comprises a number of my lectures, speeches, blogs and videos from my time as vice-chancellor of Macquarie University. I believe higher education is not simply about developing narrow abilities. So why publish an ebook? My book also uses multi-media. Booktype - Sourcefabric Development Platform. Booktango Offers Authors Widest e-Book Distribution and Best Royalties. Bloomington, IN (PRWEB) February 07, 2012 Booktango, the DIY e-book publishing solution from Author Solutions, Inc., today announced the launch of its new service.
The easy-to-use online free e-book publishing application is now available to authors eager to distribute and sell their books on leading e-reading devices including the Kindle, Nook, iPad, Kobo e-Reader, Sony Reader and smartphones. Built with the author’s needs in mind, Booktango users can expect the highest royalties in the industry while still retaining the ownership rights to their content. “As the world leader in indie book publishing, we have helped more than 140,000 authors bring over 170,000 books to market,” said Kevin Weiss, CEO of Author Solutions, Inc. “That experience makes us uniquely qualified to enter the DIY e-book publishing space because we understand better than anyone what’s important to authors. “This is an entirely new segment of the publishing market for Author Solutions to serve,” continued Weiss. Open Packaging Format (OPF) 2.0.1 v1.0. This specification, the Open Packaging Format (OPF), is one third of a triumvirate of modular specifications that make up the EPUB publication format.
EPUB enables the creation and transport of reflowable digital books and other types of content as single-file digital publications that are interoperable between disparate EPUB-compliant reading devices and applications. EPUB encompasses a content markup standard (Open Publication Structure – OPS), a container standard (Open Container Format – OCF), and this specification, a packaging standard. 1.1: Purpose and Scope In order for electronic-book technology to achieve widespread success in the marketplace, Reading Systems need to have convenient access to a large number and variety of titles.
This document, the Open Packaging Format (OPF) Specification, defines the mechanism by which the various components of an OPS publication are tied together and provides additional structure and semantics to the electronic publication. 1.2: Definitions. EPUB. EPUB (short for electronic publication; sometimes styled ePub) is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Files have the extension .epub. EPUB is designed for reflowable content, meaning that an EPUB reader can optimize text for a particular display device.
EPUB also supports fixed-layout content. The format is intended as a single format that publishers and conversion houses can use in-house, as well as for distribution and sale. It supersedes the Open eBook standard.[2] History[edit] EPUB became an official standard of the IDPF in September 2007, superseding the older Open eBook standard.[3] In August 2009, the IDPF announced that they would begin work on maintenance tasks of the EPUB standard.[4] Two broad objectives were defined by this working group: "One set of activities governs maintenance of the current EPUB Standards (i.e.
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